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Please critique my site?

I have just published my first site and while there is still some tweaking to be done I would love to hear what you think of it. Please don't pull any punches as I would welcome constructive criticism and any advice would be appreciated. I am still waiting for my Adsense account to be activated so some of the remaining white space will be populated soon.

I like the colours on your site. I would suggest making the navigation bar the same width as the banner, and maybe making your own logo instead of the default Yola text over the banner. Overall very good. Your site's nice, clean and fast to load.

The criticism I have is also with your banner and menu. Similar to connor's.
I have included a screen shot of what I have seen in Chrome. There appears to be an offset on each banner shot so it may well be a Chrome bias.

The seamless inclusion of recipes into a blog is just such a great example for many web site creators. That works well.

Lawrence - I think you have done a great job. Your site looks clean and professional and you have used color very effectively to create an eye-catching result.

Unfortunately the issue with the nav bar/ menu is a problem with the style. The default banner image has some padding set around it and I see this is not retained when you upload a custom banner image.

The width of the nav bar is out of your control. I will log a bug about this issue though. What you could try is to use the "Edit Banner" button to reduce the width of the banner image on either side to line it up with the nav bar. This takes a bit of fiddling, but I tried it out and it does work. Not an ideal solution but it might give you a more pleasing result until the bug can be fixed.

I see you have implemented Connor's favicon suggestion.

I think your page heading text looks fine but if you want to remove the default text:

1) Click on the page heading
2) Delete the text in the box that drops down and replace it with a single space

You can then edit your banner image in Picnik or in Photoshop and add your own text on top of the image and save the whole thing as a jpg.

In Picnik you would use the "Create" tab to add your text and then save the image back to Yola. In Photoshop you would create a text layer.

You have been working really hard, but if you want to experiment with this at some stage you might like the additional customization of creating your own header text.

In an upcoming release we will give you an easy way to do this in Yola, so look out for improvements in this area!

1. I noticed on your homepage, about us and equipment page, there seems to be a column of white space on the left-hand side. I don't know if that is intentional or if something is supposed to be in that spot. I don't know if it's possible to drag the left side of your content to fill in that spot?

2. On your blog page, maybe you could consider putting in an anchor tag so that when a person reaches the bottom of your page, they can just click on a link that says "return to top" without having to scroll all the way back up.

Aside from these two very minor things, I cannot think of anything else. You have done a great job of putting together this site. It looks great, works great and just feels great!

Hi Lawrence
I love your site especially the fruit pic on the front page, it makes me want to make a smoothy yummy
Fantastic, it amazes me how many things can be done on these sites
If you could browse mine
www.gypsysweddingflowers.synthasite.com
and give any comment I would greatly appreciate them
Kind Regards
Gypsy